Institute for Social Development (ISD)
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/1350
2024-03-28T16:09:53ZMaking life liveable in an informal market Infrastructures of friendship amongst migrant street traders in Durban, South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9270
Making life liveable in an informal market Infrastructures of friendship amongst migrant street traders in Durban, South Africa
Mbatha, Nomkhosi; Koskimaki, Leah
African migrants working in street trading business in Durban, South Africa oft en face xenophobia and must navigate policies regulating the informal economy. However, they sustain livelihoods in urban markets through building friendships while maintaining transnational connections back home. Based on qualitative research conducted in 2019 and 2021 with thirty street traders from Senegal, The Gambia, Nigeria, and Malawi at the Workshop Flea Market in Durban, the article interrogates the way in which friendship and conviviality emerge in informal market spaces. Building on AbdouMaliq Simone’s concept of “people as infrastructure,” we show how migrant street traders in the Workshop Market invest in the urban collective, while locally and transnationally connected through economic and aff ective exchanges.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZDeep-sea fisheries as resilient bioeconomic systems for food and nutrition security and sustainable development
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9185
Deep-sea fisheries as resilient bioeconomic systems for food and nutrition security and sustainable development
Gatto, Andrea; Sadik-Zada, Elkhan Richard; Ozbek, Sürmeya
population, contributing to a substantial shift toward fishing in the mesopelagic zone. These areas contain a
potentially huge amount of fish biomass. Considering that the global population will demand an increase of 60%
in food production by 2050, it appears that exploiting the mesopelagic resources is simply a question of time. The
present paper reviews the major risks and opportunities related to the exploitation of mesopelagic fisheries. Due
to the significance of the uncertainties related to the stock of fish resources, environmental and biodiversity
effects of the deep-sea fisheries, this inquiry advocates for the enhancement of sustainable small-sized deep-sea
fishery practices on the one hand side and a global moratorium on large-scale mesopelagic fishing on the other
hand. Deep seas could provide substantial resources for combating global food insecurity and facilitate a substantial
improvement of the nutritional status in the regions plagued by a high incidence of infant mortality and
disproportional poverty headcount ratios. For the sake of global and regional food and nutrition security, the
exploitation of the biological resources of the mesopelagic zone is a legitimate target, whereby environmental
sustainability is the major precondition for the rollout of these kinds of fishing activities.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZConnecting relational wellbeing and participatory action research: Reflections on ‘unlikely’ transformations among women caring for disabled children in South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9162
Connecting relational wellbeing and participatory action research: Reflections on ‘unlikely’ transformations among women caring for disabled children in South Africa
van der Mark, Elise J.; Zuiderent-Jerak, Teun; Conradie, Ina M.
Participatory action research (PAR) is a form of community-drivenqualitative research which aims to collaboratively take action toimprove participants’lives. This is generally achieved throughcognitive, reflexive learning cycles, whereby people ultimatelyenhance their wellbeing. This approach builds on twoassumptions: (1) participants are able to reflect on and prioritizedifficulties they face; (2) collective impetus and action areprogressively achieved, ultimately leading to increased wellbeing.This article complicates these assumptions by analyzing a two-year PAR project with mothers of disabled children from a SouthAfrican urban settlement. Participant observation notes,interviews, and a group discussion served as primary data. Wefound that mothers’severe psychological stress and the strongintersectionality of their daily challenges hampered participation.Consequently, mothers considered the project‘inactionable’.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZThe threat of Covid-19 on food security: A modelling perspective of scenarios in the informal settlements in Windhoek
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9130
The threat of Covid-19 on food security: A modelling perspective of scenarios in the informal settlements in Windhoek
Nickanor, Ndeyapo M.; Tawodzera, Godfrey; Kazembe, Lawrence N.
Due to the heterogeneity among households across locations, predicting the impacts of stay-at-home mitigation and lockdown strategies for COVID-19 control is crucial. In this study, we quantitatively assessed the effects of the Namibia government’s lockdown control measures on food insecurity in urban informal settlements with a focus on Windhoek, Namibia. We developed three types of conditional regression models to predict food insecurity prevalence (FIP) scenarios incorporating household frequency of food purchase (FFP) as the impacting factor, based on the Hungry Cities Food Matrix. Empirical data were derived from the 2017 African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) Windhoek study and applied univariate probit and bivariate partial observability models to postulate the relation between food insecurity and FFP within the context of stay-at-home disease mitigation strategy. The findings showed that FFP was positively correlated with the prevalence of food insecurity (r = 0.057, 95% CI: 0.0394, 0.085). Daily purchases portrayed a survivalist behaviour and were associated with increased food insecurity (coeff = 0.076, p = 0.05).
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